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The Crystal Coast is a popular area with tourists and second-home owners in the summer, with a name coined by the Carteret County Tourism Development Authority. [1] The absolute boundaries of this coast are often disputed, but the main area includes all the major Carteret County beaches (those on Bogue Banks, which face south).
The sound is part of North Carolina's "Crystal Coast", a tourism marketing term that is also used interchangeably with the term "Southern Outer Banks." It is the southwestern-most sound among the interconnected series of sounds along the Outer Banks that starts in the northeast at Currituck Sound.
In recent decades, the beaches to the south of Cape Lookout have been marketing themselves as the "Southern Outer Banks", including the marketing as SOBX; this region includes the Crystal Coast beaches of Bogue Banks. The term Inner Banks and IBX is a similarly new term to refer to the mainland communities along Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds.
This article originally appeared on Wilmington StarNews: Facts about tourism along North Carolina's coast. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. In Other News. Entertainment. Entertainment.
Emerald Isle is a town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States.It is part of the Crystal Coast and is located entirely on Bogue Banks.The population was 3,847 at the 2020 census, [4] but as many as 50,000 tourists each week inhabit the area during the summer season, filling up vacant rental properties that do not count toward official census results.
Many facets of the tourism industry have changed, including when tourists visit, where they come from and how many decide to stay. The new normal: Treasure Coast tourism soars, but small ...
Rounded glass at the beach. The beach is now visited by tens of thousands of tourists yearly. [3] Collecting is discouraged by State Park Rangers on the section of "Glass Beach" adjacent to the state park, [2] where they ask people to leave what little glass is left for others to enjoy, although most of the sea glass is now found on the other two glass beaches outside the state park area.
Tourism is incredibly important to New Zealand’s economy. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, it was the country’s largest export industry and in 2023 almost 7% of its workforce was directly ...